MALI RENAMES COLONIAL FRENCH STREET NAMES. (PHOTO).

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 Mali renames colonial French street names Mali followed Burkina Faso and Niger on Wednesday in renaming streets and squares in its capital to get rid of their French colonial names, AFP reported. Streets bearing the names of members of France's colonial administration have been rebaptised in Bamako, according to a decree by the junta chief. Cedeao Avenue (the French acronym for the Economic Community of West African States or ECOWAS) is also now named after a new strategic confederation that Mali has formed with Burkina Faso and Niger – the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). In all, nearly 25 names have been replaced, among them boulevards, streets, squares and public establishments. Niger and Burkina Faso have already made several changes to street and monument names in the last two years. In October, Niger renamed several historic sites in its capital Niamey which previously bore references to old colonial master France. Mali has been ruled by the military since back-to-back coups ...

DRUNKEN TOURISTS PUT IN CART AND WHEELED BACK TO THEIR HOSTEL BY THAI POLICEMAN. (PHOTOS).


  Drunken tourists put in cart and wheeled back to their hostel by Thai policeman


Tourists who passed out from binge drinking have been piled into wheelbarrows by police and taken back to their hostel in Thailand.

Two women wearing swimwear were photographed unconscious in trolleys being pushed by a policeman on party island Koh Phi Phi in Krabi, Thailand, on Nov 29.

The German and Australian women, aged 19 and 23, were said to have been found at a nearby bar before Sergeant Major Saneg Jualaong came to their aid with a pushcart.


The scenes come after warnings over drinks laced with methanol in neighbouring Laos, which left six foreign tourists dead last month.

Local authorities are still investigating the deaths of the six backpackers in Vang Vieng, including 28-year-old British lawyer Simone White, whose friend later urged travellers to “avoid all local spirits” after their group had drunk free shots at one of the bars.

After wheeling the two women in Thailand back to their hostel, Sergeant Major Jualaong said: “I know what it’s like to have a daughter and how much we worry about them.

“I thought about their parents back at home. They were both too drunk to speak and too drunk to stand up.

“In that condition, they could have an accident, such as falling into the sea or falling down steps.

“I made sure they returned safely to their beds.”

Police Colonel Surasak Jaidee, superintendent of Koh Phi Phi Police Station, added that a trolley had been used because all the routes were pedestrianised and a motorcycle was “unable to transport unconscious passengers”.

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